theCrag/website — Issue #419: Optimize avatar rendering
Author: brendanheywood
Created: 2011-12-02 00:40:33+00:00
State: open
Labels: Enhancement, Internal

One for down the track somewhere

2 tasks:

1) Remove the /avatar redirect url and link directly to the gravatar url, requires the backend pass this url through instead. This is a good thing anyway when we start having facebook vs google vs gravatar avatars.

2) Have a placeholder blank avatar and load the avatars after the page loads to give priority to the core css and javascript etc

http://24ways.org/2010/speed-up-your-site-with-delayed-content